From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:05:56 EDT

Jane:
  What bothers me in talking to so many teenagers is that they know little of the classics. Playwrights like Williams, O'Neill, Inge, Miller are largely ignored. How many know Sandburg, Hughes, Brooks, Frost, Millay -- or Dickenson.
  Rather than spending so much time giving them this pop-genre I feel we should be uplifting them, raising them to great words, great poetry. They get enough of this on their own without our TEACHING it.
  Lee
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  In a message dated 7/9/2009 4:58:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, JaneYolen writes:


Lee--some of it IS wonderous. Some of it is crap.

You would hate anyone to say ALL poetry is crap. As you know only too well, some of it is wonderous. And a lot of it is crap.

Books v literature.

Jane

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Am I missing something here?

Shouldn't we begin to steer readers away from blood-sucking vampires and get them into true literature?

Are we going telling readers that this genre is wondrous?

Duh!


LBH

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